THE TIMELINE OF THE GUATEMALAN COUP OF 1954 IMPULSED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Carlos Castillo Armas, the CIA-backed leader of Operation PBSuccess, driving into Guatemala City. Source: National Archives First of all, it is important to clarify that the coup d'état that rocked Guatemala in 1954 was the result of the covert operation called PBSUCCESS (CIA Cryptonym). As Mainwaring & Schenoni (2018) rightly points out. this operation was organized by the U.S.CIA to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, the democratically elected President of Guatemala, for opposing the interests of the United Fruit Company and for allowing members of Guatemala's communist party - the Guatemalan Labor Party - to influence the most important decisions of his government. The Árbenz government presented a series of reforms that U.S. espionage considered communist and attributed to Soviet influence. They then spread the fear that Guatemala was going to become what CIA Director Allen Dulles called "a Soviet beachhead in America " (enemy position for invasion). These accu...

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